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Phillip J. Windley

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Phil Windley is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Kynetx. Kynetx provide a cloud-based application platform that is uniquely architected to use events, personal data, and APIs to create social products and services. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University where he teaches courses on reputation, digital identity, large-scale system design, and programming languages. Phil writes the popular Technometria blog and is a frequent contributor to various technical publications. He is also the author of the books The Live Web published by Course Technology in 2011 and Digital Identity published by O'Reilly Media in 2005.

Prior to joining BYU, Phil spent two years as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) ...more

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	Digital Identity: Unmasking Identity Management Architecture 3.76 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Live Web: Building Event-Based Connections in the Cloud really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Learning Digital Identity: Design, Deploy, and Manage Identity Architectures by Phillip J. Windley (Goodreads Author), Drummond Reed (Foreword) 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Digital Identity by Windley, Phillip J. (2005) Paperback 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[(The Live Web: Putting Cloud Computing to Work for You )] [Author: Phillip J. Windley] [Jan-2012] 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Higher Order Logic Theorem Proving and Its Applications: 8th International Workshop, Aspen Grove, UT, USA, September 11 - 14, 1995. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 971) by E. Thomas Schubert (Editor), Phillip J. Windley (Goodreads Author) (Editor), James Alves-Foss (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Leadership is therefore defined as the ability to influence those whom we do not control.”
― Jamshid Gharajedaghi, Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity: A Platform for Designing Business Architecture

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“Vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center, of meaningful human experiences.”
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“with lawyers I always assume that they came by their wealth and position through avarice and by means nefarious:”
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